moonstrualcycle | no running in the halls!

no running in the halls!

[hot off the presses, this one, horrendous new clothes and all. wherever it is in the DR's apartment building that Lea's chosen to roost, that's where Isa's getting ~~yeeted~~ catapulted, quite literally. at least it had the decency to drop her outside the apartment, right? enjoy the distinct sound of someone colliding hard with the wall next to the door and crumpling into a groaning mess on the floor. there's sand on her shoes, and a familiar frisbee came with her, dropped a short distance from where she landed. knock knock, Lea.]

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That doesn't sound like something I want either, if it's not controllable and may not wear off when we leave. Why don't you find me one for animal parts and we'll go from there.

[bodyswapping in particular is a big dnw for Isa; it's too much like not being in control of her actions.]

Look, I'm gonna tell you now, basically nothing is controllable. This place likes to fuck with you, and it's not nice about it. Everything kinda goes away on it's own, too. One time I got stuck with paws for like two days.

[ And that was one of the less terrible effects. ]

Well.

[she sighs, looking deeply disgruntled, but that's kind of her default expression anyway, so who knows. maybe this will be good for her. it's still a weird-ass way to have fun, but as long as Lea's there it should be okay, right? right.]

I guess as long as one of us still has hands to prepare food with it'll be fine.

Might lose my legs, but I hope that doesn't happen. We only need one of those.

[ Anyway, time to push this door open and oh look it's a room that's kind of small and just full of shelves. All of the shelves are loaded down with potions, some labeled, some with pictures, and some completely blank. It's a mystery! ]

[one of... what, Lea's legs? why would they only need one, i'm confused and so is Isa. but of more importance is how small this room is, when wings might happen, or tails, or if someone turned into a centaur they might have a rough time, it seems like. Isa's still riding the high from murdering fairies, so she feels okayish now about this whole idea. time to move over to a shelf and peruse the options.]

At least I'll have no trouble carrying you out if you lose your legs. C'mere and help me pick one.

[ She's alluding to Nagaxel, knowing full well that Isa knows nothing about him. He freaks her out, but she'll still want to show Isa at some point. ]

There's plenty of different animal ones. Which one's got your eye?

[ She's picking up a potion that has a label all the way around it, with burning wheels and eyes drawn in a style that looks like it came from the dark ages. It is faintly glowing. ]

[she'll be fascinated, probably. also that looks toxic, Lea, why would you do that. Isa scans the shelf and then pulls a couple of bottles forward. one has a tiny but detailed watercolor of a forest on the label, in colors that are definitely wrong for a forest; the other has what looks like a child's drawing of a classic chimera.]

Both of these have me worried but also interested.

[ Relax, she put it back in favor of a different one. This one is a sparkling molten silver, as if champagne turned into metal. The label is hidden under her hand. ]

Sounds about right. You sure you want to try one after Halloween Town?

Yeah, it's fine. Now that I know bad stuff can happen, I can at least brace for it. Which one should I do?

[don't eat the mercury, Lea. :| ]

[ She's thinkin' about it. Show her the one that looks like straight lava and watch her drink that, I dare you. ]

Well, if you're sure... That one.

[ She points to the forest. ]

[that just made me think of Lea seeing that image of the hot dogs cooking over a lava floe and "i lava good barbecue" and laughing for like ten years. anyway, bottoms up-- actually wait, she conscientiously removes her jacket first, because she likes it a lot and doesn't want it to get ripped or something from animal parts suddenly appearing. this turns out to be a really good idea, since when Isa opens the forest one and slams it back like a shot, the first thing that happens is that a pair of large, brightly-colored wings bursts from her back. they're quickly followed by matching feathery antennae poking up out of her hair, and a long curled tail. everything she's wearing now has rips in it. 8| ]

Ooooo.

[ Yeah that looks about right for something like this. Lea looks impressed, or possibly enraptured, and reaches up to touch the antennae. The wings are so pretty, wow. ]

[Isa twists around to try and see what happened on her back, but she can't control these new parts yet, so it doesn't work very well.]

What happened, what'd I get, besides stuff that ripped my clothes? Ah--

[she reaches up to touch the antennae too, because she felt that! this is weird.]

Really cool wings. Check 'em out, they're like a dragon. Fairy... butterfly. All of the above.

[ She's gonna walk a half-circle around her and...... poke the tail. ]

[she was about to try and grab one of the wings to hold it still, but she just got hot AND cold chills from the tail, so stop it. :( the tail itself curls up more tightly and then uncoils to try and thwap Lea.]

What-- quit it, at least let me get control of it first, if I can. You do one, you're supposed to be suffering with me here.

[ aaaa she dodges away from it, but she's laughing, and trying to hide the fact that she's laughing. She's never been able to do it well with Isa. ]

Fine. Pick one for me.

[grumblegrumble. Isa turns, carefully, and scans the shelf closest to her, near where she found the potion she drank. hm, not that one, definitely not that one... here we go. this one looks like it might be a mate to Isa's; same sort of watercolored style, but much more unsettling, with descending landscape features in absolutely the wrong order. ocean waves, clouds, trees. this could do literally anything.]

I have literally no idea what this could do.

[ Haven't had one of those in a while and all that. She uncorks it and takes a big swig of it, and then... nothing happens. At least first. Then Lea makes a weird face and reaches up to rub her eyes, and when she removes her hand they've gone solid black. Every part of them. ]

What the fuck.

[hm, don't like that very much. Isa still can't really feel her new body parts or where they are, but her tail's curled up tightly again.]

Can you see? Your eyes went totally black.

Yeah I see fine, everything just went black and white. Whoa—

[ She just dropped the potion bottle and caught it again, and the catching hand has sprouted three very thick tentacles. ]

[and Isa jumped back a bit, and only just managed to keep her wings from knocking the contents of like four shelves onto the floor.]

What the fuck.

[ And by sprouted I mean her hand is entirely tentacles, splitting off somewhere in the middle of her forearm. She doesn't look like she's bothered or in pain, just a little confused. The tentacles blend into red, with the suction-y parts a more faded tone. ]

...... if I touch you are you going to hit me.

[oh my god, why this. why are you like this, Lea.]

...not immediately, no. I'd at least wait until we're somewhere with room to get a good windup.

Oh good.

[ She looks to Isa, not that it's immediately apparent, and delicately uses her new tentacles to place the potion bottle back on a shelf before inching them toward Isa. There is plenty of time to tell her to stop or to otherwise smack them. Cut them off. Whatever. ]

[she's leaning away just slightly, but looks otherwise resigned to however weird this experience is going to be. spoilers: she has no idea how she'll react, but it'll be great.]

Why can you control them so well, I still can't even really feel what I got.

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